As near as I can tell, there were extraneous control characters in my ./config/surfraw/conf file. When I deleted that file and recreated the file, surfraw now works correctly. Control characters may be visible but that doesn't necessarily mean a screen reader will read them or let a user know they're actually in a file. Thanks. On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Ivy Foster via arch-general wrote:
On 18 Apr 2021, at 10:51 am -0400, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:
do the elvi's need rewriting? I installed the package according to wiki directions the way I usually install it and am getting on the duckduckgo elvi line 488 file not found error when I give duckduckgo a search term.
Make sure you've set up your environment and/or configuration file correctly. You need to set at least one of SURFRAW_graphical_browser or SURFRAW_text_browser. Note that line 488 of surfraw (which is a shell script) calls SURFRAW_browser, which is set to one of those to options, depending on your graphics preferences.
Hope that helps!
Cheers, iff
P.S: "Elvi" is plural already. The singular is "elvis". Yes, really.